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The iconic UK based artist Howard Jones returns with a seminal new album, Ordinary Heroes, set for US release June 29th, 2010. The new collection is Jones' most personal album to date, a stripped down straight ahead pop album filled with classic piano and string infused songs.
In the six years since Jones' last album, Ordinary Heroes shows Jones to be in a different place musically, moving away from his early synth pop sound (which put him on the map in the early 1980's with hits such as "No One is to Blame" and "What is Love"). Jones is in a more reflective mood with Ordinary Heroes, looking both inward and beyond the personal with a soulful pop album where storytelling is unobstructed by graceful, memorable melodies and supported by simple, elegant instrumentation.
The aptly entitled album is filled with songs about the hero in all of us. With the title track "Ordinary Heroes" and the opening song "Straight Ahead", Jones takes us into the lives of regular folks, often unrecognized and unacknowledged, but heroic in their own way. This universal theme also turns personal for Jones with songs like "Soon You'll Go" and "You Knew Us So Well" which also reflect his own journey as a father watching his daughter grow up and dealing with the loss of a loved one to suicide.
"For me, both as a creative artist and man, life is about transforming obstacles into something of value. It's quite hard to live in the modern world, so with this album I wanted to celebrate the courage and fighting spirit in our every day lives," explains Jones from his London loft where he wrote and laid down the original songs for the new record. He continues, "I wanted to create an album that had a simplicity of sound to it, where you would not be distracted from the lyrics."
Thus, the remainder of the instrumentation was recorded in a studio in the west of England without overdubs on top of his original piano and vocal tracks. The final touches included a trip to Wales to record the choir for the emotionally touching song, "Soon You'll Go."
With this new album Jones does not let us forget, that even in the most troubled times, love prevails over loss and a sense of optimism and a little courage will carry us forward beyond all obstacles. With additional heartfelt songs such as "Someone You Need", "Love Never Wasted" and "Even if I Don't Say", Jones has created an album that soothes and inspires even the most wearied souls that better days are ahead.
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Robert Pattinson, Miley Cyrus And Many More Young Stars Make Forbes Celebrity Power List
Monkee Micky Dolenz Is Releasing First Solo Album In Over 10 Years
Monkee-Micky Dolenz, who is releasing his first solo in over 10 years , on August 3, a tribute to the songs of Carole King: King For A Day (Gigatone Records) has signed on for a special appearance in SyFy's forthcoming TV-movie Mega Python vs. Gatoroid. The film stars veteran teen idols Debbie Gibson and Tiffany.
Dolenz will play the guest musical performer ('Micky Dolenz') at a benefit to save the Everglades and films his appearance later this week in California.
Dolenz will donate his salary to the ongoing Gulf relief efforts, as he will a portion of his participation in early-August at my RecordFantasy: an event put together by Gigatone Records where the superfan can become involved in the final preparation of Dolenz's album and appear in concert with him (www.myrecordfantasy.com)
BOOK BEAT: Paperback Writer By Mark Bego (Publish America Books)
by Anne M. Raso
Having been a longtime friend and fan of Mark Bego's, I was anxious to pick up his first book about his own life (he has written 55 to 60 celeb bios, both authorized and unauthorized and that is what he is famous for)!
A former celeb magazine editor and journalist, Mark has been the king of the celebrity bio for something like 35 years now and is no stranger to the New York Times bestseller list. His biggest moneymaker was a tome on Michael Jackson right about the time of the Victory Tour circa 1984 and we are sure he saw interest in it once more when the King Of Pop passed away a little over a year ago. I first met him when I interviewed him for his Aretha Franklin bio back in the mid-80s–it was for some kind of book review magazine that I have long since forgotten the name of.
Bego's tales of pal-ing around with The Supremes' Mary Wilson in Monaco and at Bev Hills parties are quite amusing just because they always seem to encounter a wrench in otherwise glamorous situations–such as Wilson's angry and violent ex-hubby chasing her down the freeway in her mechanically challenged vintage Rolls or getting lost on the way to a party in Monaco given by Bill Wyman and The Prince that turned out only a few blocks away.
Other friendships Bego discusses in details are ones with The Village People's Randy Jones, Three Dog Night's Jimmy Greenspoon and The Monkee's Micky Dolenz (not surprisingly, he worked on books with all three). Very often knowing one celeb often led him to getting him book collaboration deals with another, as is the case with these three. Along the way, Bego went the standard agent route–the agents would ask him for ideas on hot celebs and he would pitch 'em. He was able to write whole books out of only one interview apiece with Cher, Aretha and Madonna–and as most aspiring biographers go, that is an amazing feat–but Bego knows how to get celebs' friends and family to talk!
I enjoyed this book but I have to say that as a journalist, I enjoyed hearing another journalist's stories about not getting paid and wish Bego came up with antidote for the "check's in the mail syndrome." I always like to hear how other journalists and authors prevent getting ripped off in the crooked writing business (yes, it is arguably even worse that the music or fashion business in terms of rip-offs). Bego's stories about making ends meet include his stint as being the Easter Bunny's assistant at kids' photo ops in a Michigan mall….and even once donning the bunny suit! That is light years away from his photo ops with rock and Hollywood royalty, but that's what makes this tell-all tome so enjoyable!
I am still wondering why mustachioed mark is sitting on a lounge chair pointing at a large slice of watermelon on the cover. I am thinking that maybe it is one of those "Paul Is Dead" type clues that only those on the very inside of Bego's world would "get"–but I will be sure to ask him about this if there is a NYC launch party for the publication of Paperback Writer! For more info on Paperback writer, go to www.markbego.com.
BOOK BEAT: PAPERBACK WRITER BY MARK BEGO (Publish America Books, $29.95, available on amazon.com)
Rock's Aerosmith Steven Tyler Writing Rock Book
Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler is set to open up about the heated feuds with his bandmates, which prompted him to briefly quit the group last yea r (09), in a new book.
The Dude Looks Like A Lady singer admits tension reached a high after h e fell off a stage during a South Dakota concert last summer (09). The in cident left him with multiple injuries and forced the band to cancel a No rth American tour with ZZ top.
While he was recuperating, Tyler announced his plans to take a two-year hiatus, and then abruptly quit the group.
Guitarist Joe Perry confirmed Tyler's decision to quit, while reports s uggested the band was on a search on replace the lead singer for 2010 and 2011 commitments.
Tyler has since mended his relationship with his bandmates and the grou p is back together and touring the globe, and now he's keen to reveal all about his tumultuous relationship with his Aerosmith buddies.
He tells the Associated Press, "I'm doing a book called Does the Noise in My Head Bother You, and I will be speaking about what it's like to be married to four other guys, and what I've had to put up with.
"There will never be another band like Aerosmith, and I just don't want to do anything to hurt that. I love the band so much." Does the Noise in My Head Bother You is set to hit shelves in October ( 10).
Lady Gaga Tops Broadway Wish List
Lady Gaga has topped a list of superstars fans would most like to see in a Broadway show.
The flamboyant performer played Adelaide in a high school production of Guys & Dolls and now GaGa fans are urging the native New Yorker to take her eccentric act to the professional stage.
The singer scored 32 per cent of votes on a Wenn.com poll, ahead of fel low popprincess Britney Spears with 28 per cent. Twenty six per cent of voters want to see Tom Cruise follow in the footsteps of his wife Katie H olmes, who enjoyed a run in Arthur Miller's All My Sons on Broadway in 2008.
Teen superstars Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber sealed fourth and fifth places in the poll with 12 and five per cent of votes respectively.
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Eminem – Sober Eminem Can't Revisit 'Creepy' Home Studio
Eminem can't go down to the recording studio he built in his Michigan hom e anymore – because it reminds him of a very dark period in his life.
The rapper admits he spent a lot of time down there at the height of th e drug addiction, which kept him out of the spotlight for two years – and couldn't face returning to a place full of bad memories.
Instead he recorded most of his new album Recovery in a new hometown st udio.
He tells Billboard magazine, "I still have the studio at my house, but it reminds me of when I was in a really dark place.
"As soon as all the pills were flushed out of my system and I started s eeing things clearer, going downstairs in my basement and recording creep ed me out a little bit."
Willie Nelson's Hippie Look Made Him An Outsider In Nashville
Willie Nelson fears his hippie look held him back at the beginning of his career – because straight-laced Nashville, Tennessee music executives di dn't give him the credit he deserved.
The country music legend was inducted into Nashville's music mecca the Grand Ole Opry in 1965, but he now admits he never felt he belonged in Music City – because of the way he looked.
He tells Parade magazine, "The executives in music were a little prejud iced and biased about someone's appearance. They never stopped to think that maybe that long-haired hippie out there might have a little talent.
"There are a lot of people that hate change and want to keep things the way they've always been. Nashville was one of the last places to be lenient toward the hippies and the long hairs. That's one of the things that held it back.
"I felt like they failed to realise that I really knew what I was talki ng about. I was writing some pretty good songs and my singing wasn't that bad. I had a base in Texas. But the majority of the people that I record ed for and the publishing companies that I wrote for had heard stories ab out how popular I was in Texas. But they never left their desks in Nashvi lle long enough to come by and check it out.
"Whenever I'd go down to Texas to play to thousands of people on the we ekend, they didn't know anything about it in Nashville. So it was a big d isconnect between Nashville and the rest of the world for me back in those days."
Toy Story 3 Still Tops-Tom Cruise Disappoints
The toys and the grownups rule the U.S. box office, combining to make $100 million over the weekend.
Adam Sandler's comedy opened with $41 million but failed to steal the top spot from Toy Story 3, which raked in $59 million in its second week on release.
Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz's action comedy Knight and Day opened in third place with a distant and disappointing $20.5 million- the worst opening for a Cruise film in 20 years.
The Karate Kid and The A-Team round out the new top five.

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Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper The Novel Main Characters Significant Passages Movie Novel Review The End My sister's keeper is a fictional novel written in first person. The point of view, however, is shared by several narrators. Anna, Jesse, Kate, and Brian Fitzgerald, Campbell Alexander, and Julia Romano narrate in present time--2004. Sara Fitzgerald's narration mostly takes place in the preceding 14 years. Sara Fitzgerald
Mother of Jesse, Kate, and Anna
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Formerly a practicing attorney Anna to Campbell
"I want to sue [my parents] for the rights to my own body" (19).
This passage is the moment when Anna asks Campbell to represent her in the case. It is the formal declaration of her desire to choose her own life, even if that choice directly effects Kate's life. Once I started My Sister's Keeper, I couldn't put it down. As I read, I contemplated what I would do in Anna's situation, or Sara's or any of the other characters. Both the novel and the movie follow the same basic pattern. They display the moral struggle raging through the Fitzgerald family as Kate continues to battle cancer and Anna seeks medical emancipation. There are several notable differences, though. Picoult, Jodi. "My Sister's Keeper." New York: Washington Square Press, 2004. Print. Anna Fitzerald is a "designer baby." When her older sister, Kate, was diagnosed with Leukemia at age two, Anna's parents made sure their next child could donate her umbilical cord blood to Kate. A few years later Anna was asked to donate blood for Kate--a short time after that it was bone marrow.
Now 14, Anna asks lawyer Campbell Alexander to represent her. She wants medical emancipation. Kate is dying and needs a kidney transplant to have any hope of survival--Anna is the only one who can donate.
Because she's under 18, Anna is not the one who has the final say in the donation. She feels she should be. Sara and Brian Fitzgerald's love for Anna, Kate, and Jesse is unconditional, as any parents should be, but
can a parent live with the knowledge that they didn't do everything in their power to save their dying child? What if it involves taking away from another child?
The whole family struggles to find answers to unanswerable questions throughout this heart-breaking novel. In the end, the court rules in favor of Anna. Sadly, she never gets a chance to excercise her new-found rights to her own body, however. She is killed in a car accident on the way to the hospital to see Kate.
Anna's last gift to Kate is her kidney. Setting: Rhode Island, 2004 (with flashbacks reaching back 14 years). Brian Fitzgerald
Father of Jesse, Kate, and Anna
Married to Sara
Firefighter and amateur astronomer
Has an easier time seeing things from Anna's point of view than Sara
Narrates some of the story in current time Jesse
Oldest of the Fitzgerald children
Feels neglected, insufficient and ignored
Rebellious, destructive, delinquent behavior to gain a feeling of importance
Narrates very little of the story Kate
Middle Fitzgerald child
Diagnosed with Lukemia when she was 2
Narrates the epilogue
Feels like she is not doing her job of "big sis" because Anna is often the one giving to her
Seems to have come to terms with dying Anna
Youngest Fitzgerald child
The "constant" in the Fitzgerald life
Struggles with the knowledge that she is the only one who can give Kate a kidney, saving Kate, but giving up a lot herself
Seemingly first act of rebellion is to sue for rights to her own body
Narrates much of the story
Kate's "keeper" Anna is the one able to keep Kate alive--explaining the chosen title, "My Sister's Keeper" Campbell Alexander
Lawyer who represents Anna
In the beginning, arrogant and seemingly self-centered
He had built up walls to keep from getting close to people
Uses a service dog, Judge, for whom he provides laughable explainations for having
In the end, he creates a strong bond with Anna and begins to address unanswered feelings for Julia
The reader learns he's epileptic in the last chapters--providing an explaination for Judge Julia Ramano
Anna's appointed guardian ad litem
Dated Campbell in high school
Genuinely cares for people
Strong personality Anna
"My mother came into our room when Kate and I were just hanging out. She had my father with her, which meant we were in for a more heavy discussion than who-left-the-sink-running-by-accident. "[the doctor] wont recommend the procedure unless the kidney comes from Anna."
I started thinking about this...would it hurt? Could people live with just one kidney? [...] Where would I get MY spare? Before I could ask any of this, Kate spoke, "I'm not doing it again, all right? I'm sick of it...Just leave me alone, will you?" (251)
This passage is written in past-tense. Anna is filling us in on the big picture of the story. There is a lot of foreshadowing in the simple words. Anna wonders what it will be like to give up a kidney and Kate says she doesn't want it (although, at the time, no one thinks anything of her comment and it gets dismissed as an outburst). Sara 1990
He faces me..."We can't just replace Kate if she dies," he says...
"I know. So we'll just have to make sure that she doesn't" (72).
Written in real tense but is a flashback from Sara's narration, this passage shows Sara's determination and willingness to do whatever she can to make Kate live. It is then that she suggested they engineer a child to be a perfect match for Kate. Brian
"There's a tiny space where I can nearly fit myself, one that puts me up against the tempered glass, spiderweb-shattered, stained red with blood. And just as Red forces the driver's side door free with the Jaws and a dog comes whimpering out, I realize that the face pressed up against the other side of the broken window is Anna's" (314).
A parents worst nightmare just came true. Brian discovered that the car accident he responded to as a firefighter was one that involved his daughter, who was riding with Campbell. Anna, who at this time has medical emancipation, does not make it. Thus her hard decision of giving her kidney to Kate is made for her. As the plot unfolded and I got to know the characters better, I still could not decide what I would do in Anna's situation. It wasn't until it was revealed that Kate didn't want the possibly life-saving kidney that Anna's decision to have the power to keep her kidney becomes increasingly noble. The ending was agonizing--which proves how well written it is. The pain that Brian felt at finding his daughter's bloody body up against the windshield is something I hope I never have to experience. Unfortunately, I don't see a "happy" way to end this book. Something--more accurately, someone--has to give. Realistically, I feel like it's too neat of an ending for Kate. She was deathly sick with leukemia with little chance of recovery from a kidney transplant. Yet, after she receives Anna's organ she makes a full recovery and goes into remission.
I also thought the confusing romantic relationship between Campbell and Julia was a bit too much. It was distracting from the rest of the story and added complications. Although, the back story did greatly help explain Campbell's character so I see why it's in the book. I believe the novel would appeal to many different groups of people. It has teenage rebellion, medial ethics, sister and family dynamics and no shortage of heart-gripping moments as the Fitzgeralds struggle with a sister, friend, daughter, loved one, dying of cancer. Readers should have a high maturity level. I would not recommend it to most middle school aged children. "My Sister's Keeper." Dir. Nick Cassavetes. New Cinema, 2009. DVD Novel: Jesse is a teenage rebel. He sets fires in empty buildings that Brian has to put out.
Movie: Jesse is a much "smaller" character and doesn't have the all-out rebellion characteristic. It is known he is dyslexic. Novel: Julia Ramano is Anna's guardian ad litem appointed by the court to use an unbiased point of view of their situation to recommend what is best for Anna.
Movie: Julia Ramano's character is deleted completely Novel: Anna dies in a car crash. Her kidney is donated to Kate, who makes it through the risky surgery and goes into remission.
Movie: Kate's long battle with cancer ends when she fades away after expressing her peace with death. Novel: Campbell has sharp edges and gives non-accurate retorts when questioned about his guide dog, Judge. He and Anna become close.
Movie: Campbell is less of a main character. He has a softer exterior. Novel: Kate kisses Taylor--another cancer patient--after the hospital prom.
Movie: Kate and Taylor sneak off and have sex. Novel: When Kate becomes upset while looking for a prom dress, Anna makes her feel better by joking around. Kate wants nothing to do with wigs.
Movie: Sara suggests a wig when Kate becomes upset over lack of hair. Kate happily accepts. Novel: No mention of Kate wanting to go to the beach one last time.
Movie: Kate requests to go to the beach. Brian makes sure it's okay with her doctors before taking her--against Sara's wishes. Sara joins them at the beach later. I believe the producer made these changes to take away some of the layers of the story so it could be produced as a movie. The changes in these characters allow Anna's internal struggle and the tough family situation take main stage. I believe taking away Anna and Kate pulling a small prank on the hairdresser takes away from the relationship that Anna and Kate have. I suspect it was taken out because there was no easy way to fit such a small scene into the existing format. I believe this change is Hollywood trying to make a movie more interesting. However, in this case it is a mistake. The actions do not fit the characters. A close-up shot is used when Brian talks to the doctor about taking Kate to the beach. It is at eye level and draws the attention to the conversation and emotions playing on Brian's face as he asks if he can do this one last thing for his daughter. When Kate comes down the steps dressed for prom, new wig and all, a low-angle, long shot is used. There is also use of high-key lighting. Altogether, it creates a look of elegance that adds to Kate's happy moment. Presentation created by Leah McQuone I believe the ending was changed to take less of a sudden turn, especially since the movie focused more on Kate's cancer and the emotional struggle that wrapped its self around Anna--not as much the individual problems of the rest of the characters. Low-key lighting was used for the scene of Kate's funeral to create a sad, dreary and depressed atmosphere. An establishing shot is used as the funeral procession pulls into the graveyard. The movie used more close-up and medium shots than any other type. The whole movie has a serious tone and these shots help convey the seriousness, and often agony and confusion, present. Tissues may be needed--you have been warned. I recommend "My Sister's Keeper", both the novel and the movie. Works Cited
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Clinton borrowed a line that is commonly attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville's 1831 book Democracy in America.
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Clinton said, "America is great because America is good."
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Hi, I'm Espen. I help facilitate evidence-based social change.
At the moment, I'm particularly thrilled to contribute to Andre Tanker ('different thoughts') – a newly founded research center that I co-created in order to help Danish nonprofit organizations educate and mobilize the public through effective, evidence-based communication of expert knowledge.
Want to learn more about me and what I do? Check this section out.
Oh, and if you think something good can come from the two of us talking, hit me up on Twitter or LinkedIn, or send me a message – let's inspire change!
The Mission
Humanity is currently facing an important choice. Do we live up to our role as stewards of the planet and nurturers of each other, or do we opt for 'business as usual'? To me the answer is pretty simple.
I believe that we can and should act in a timely fashion to address the interrelated problems of the modern world in a meaningful way. This basically means going beyond the short-sighted knee-jerk reactions that unfortunately guide so much contemporary thinking and doing.
In particular, I believe that the right responses essentially come from an evidence-based approach to the challenges we face – an approach that will often tell us that causes are systemic in nature and, thus, also suggest the need for systemic changes to the way our societies are structured.
Fortunately, hoards of skilled people are already working on this.
However, focusing on the right level of analysis and identifying the corresponding solutions is only part of the puzzle. With the goal in sight, the road that eventually leads to appropriate change must itself be traversed with scientific rigor. In other words, efforts to mobilize the movements and design the cultures that are conducive to such developmental processes must also rest on a strategic, science-based foundation. This intentional facilitation of evidence-based change is what I'm particularly interested in developing and inspiring.
Too often, the communication of a cause is guided by a set of unfortunate misconceptions. Consequently, the work seeking to foster the public will and action needed to bring about large-scale development risks undermining itself.
One of the basic things to pay attention to here – and something that is routinely overlooked – is the well-established scientific fact that the audience, in this case the public, cannot be considered a blank slate, an empty container into which communicators can simply pour information and facts, thereby automatically conveying some uncompromised expert message.
Instead, human beings are immersed in a web of understandings built from a life of experience – cultural and otherwise – that is organized as mental models and in powerful, unconscious ways guides all ongoing efforts at making sense of the organism's surroundings – including the latest tweet from a nonprofit.
Moreover, much of this sense-making is guided by understandings that are, by nature, far from suited to grasp the complexities of climate change or the causes of global economic inequality. Quite on the contrary, actually. The principal goal of human cognition has been to keep alive a collection of genes (and their bodily vessel) facing the relatively concrete threats and joys of the more immediate surrounding environment. This makes us optimally responsive to and effective at grasping whatever exists at a 'human scale'. That same system – complete with its vast array of cost-effective, simplifying mental shortcuts – has since been co-opted to build the mental models that let us think about complex human society.
Needless to say, even though these cognitive characteristics are by no means 'wrong', they're simply not fortunate when it comes to understanding and acting on the real intricacies of large-scale, societal issues. In short, humans have a severely hard time dealing with systemic causation.
It would thus seem that the game is rigged and that inspiring people to think beyond the short-sighted, individualistic solutions of our time indeed presents an uphill battle.
And yes, these are serious challenges, alright. Not paying attention to the basic tendencies of human cognition and the cultural understandings that already exist out there might very well mean that a message will have a hard time surviving the rapid waters of public thinking. Fortunately, with the right empirically-driven tools it is possible to navigate those complexities and develop, for example, communication that effectively makes the expert perspective broadly available and inspires support for concrete reforms at the appropriate systemic level.
The struggle for evidence-based change is in large part a struggle about meaning. And that struggle must be fought with the right tools.
The Me
Dane, modern boheme, avid traveler, cognitive semiotician, struggling writer, location-independent entrepreneur, aspiring surfer, and social change enthusiast. This humble website is my attempt to provide an online home for my thoughts and activities related to the latter.
Now, if you'd prefer a more classic resumé experience, check out my LinkedIn profile. Otherwise, feel free to continue reading.
At the moment, I'm channeling much of my energy into Andre Tanker – a research center I recently co-founded in order to help Danish cause-driven organizations create the public understanding and collective action necessary to arrive at evidence-based societal shifts.
The approach we take is based on our collaboration with Washington D.C.'s FrameWorks Institute, and we are currently working toward applying their research-based communications method, Strategic Frame Analysis, in a Danish context.
In short, this means looking at the public's basic understanding of particular social issues and developing empirically-grounded communication recommendations that aim at improving that same understanding.
Among the necessary steps are the mapping of existing public thinking on a given subject, the identification of particularly counter-productive understandings, and the creation and empirical testing of communication elements (such as explanatory metaphors) that effectively support understanding of the often complex expert story.
The process results in actionable guidelines for entire advocacy fields. Narrative packages that specify 'how to talk' about a particular issue in ways that "translate" the fundamental expert insights into something mentally manageable.
Used in unison by advocates, this more productive narrative then helps create the public support for specific policy solutions.
So, how did I end up playing around with these things? The short version goes something like this:
With an ongoing thematic focus on the mobilization of social movements, my road through academia, which concluded a few years ago with degrees in social anthropology and cognitive semiotics, has been a major source of inspiration. The studies provided me with a host of useful insights and tools that I already then considered directly relevant in the attempt to design a better world through collective action.
However, wanting to get my hands dirty through the application of that knowledge, I was pretty stunned when I learned that concerted efforts at science-based facilitation of social change weren't actually easy to find.
After a short period, which included an initial stint of communication-focused collaborations with various organizations and companies, it became clear to me that if I wanted to see the kind of approaches I envisioned happening, I would have to take part in pushing for them myself.
Fortunately, clever people in other parts of the world had already successfully applied insights from, for example, the study of human culture and the human mind in order to mobilize the public will needed to address the often systemic causes behind many of today's unfortunate social and environmental circumstances.
In particular, the excellent science-based communications work done by the FrameWorks Institute caught my attention. I wanted to bring that approach to Denmark, and a transatlantic collaboration arose – Andre Tanker was born.
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Hauntings are objectively real, but ghosts are not!
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The trigger and mechanism that result in the subjective experience (traditionally labeled "ghosts and haunting phenomenon") are objectively real, require only three elements to produce the target phenomenon (a haunting), and will affect specific genotypes (MAOA gene variants) diversely and according to types. Con-specific markers, resulting from human biological contamination of the environment, activate "high affinity" (TAAR) receptors, long before conscious awareness occurs, if ever. This triggers an innate survival / anti"predator adaptation, which manifests as a physiological, psychological, perceptual, and behavioral cascade, that results in the pre-conditioned subjective experience for a suitably sensitive individual. In groups, this predictably results in "contagion," which through language, chemical broadcasting, imprinting, re-imprinting, mirror-neural processes, and behavioral cues, "infects" others in a group, who fail to detect the trigger or lack the ability, thus providing a group-survival benefit.
I will continue... While researching The Haunted Vaults of Edinburgh, Scotland, Robert Wiseman (et. al.) clearly demonstrated that his own hypothesis (regarding ambient light, room size, etc.) was not supported, but that individuals without prior knowledge were indeed able to correctly determine (beyond chance), which vaults were historically considered haunted. This clearly demonstrated that an environmental element, undetected by the researchers, was present and being sensed by some individuals. Furthermore, Wiseman, and many skeptics before him, completely ruled out four of the five primary external sensory modalities as likely mechanisms, as well as any detectable pattern of energy. All that remains is matter.
The only sense that was not, and had never been, ruled out was chemo-detection. This particular modality had been the most probable because it is our most ancient sense (cranial nerve one), was once (before we evolved into primates) its own brain (rine encephalon), is the only sensory organ/apparatus that comes in direct contact with the thing it senses, works both near and far, through apparently solid objects, and has incredible longevity, and is always on. It also works primarily below conscious awareness, and it (chemo-detection) remains the primary form of communication in nature, and particularly with those creature with which we share a common ancestor dating back over 300,000,000 years (C. Elegance). However, what was most compelling to us was that it represents the largest single gene group in the human genome (345 active) dwarfing the amount needed for neurotransmitter function (15).
However, there was a problem. According to a century of scientific dogma, a human beings entire olfactory pallet was thought to be in the area of around 10,000 scents (Neither we nor anyone else have been able to find the research to support this assertion). After going over countless research papers, believers stories, skeptics arguments, etc., we predicted that the 10,000-scent assertion, was not only incorrect, it was wrong by orders of magnitude. It turned out that we were correct.
Shepherd GM (2004) The Human Sense of Smell: Are We Better Than We Think? PLoS Biol 2(5): e146. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0020146
Bushdid, et. al., 2014 - "Humans Can Discriminate More than 1 Trillion Olfactory Stimuli" http://www.sciencemag.org...
The point everyone had missed all along was that we did not evolve into our current species (homo sapiens) in the civilized world, but in the natural world. This was a major revelation, as we realized that the confusion over hauntings (and many other things) was likely a contextual issue, and could only be understood in terms of its original context. As soon as we changed the context to the natural world, and the background to a cave, things instantly began to become clear.
"In his book "Are You Getting Enlightened or Losing Your Mind" (Gersten, 1997), Dennis Gersten, M.D., recounts a story told by a friend, and "psychic," Shama Smith, who has been a "psychic consultant" for the FBI, and various California Law Enforcement Agencies. Here is a perfect example of how "The Mythological Box" skews the perspective of a highly educated individual with an advanced degree in Psychiatric Medicine, resulting in a completely illogical conclusion. Below, we have two brief excerpts from the book in which, Smith is relating some bad news about her new residence to her husband. Pay particular attention to how she unknowingly describes our trigger and the mechanism.
"When my husband, Cass, and I moved into a house in Southern California, I was standing in the kitchen the first day and said to him, 'Honey, the house is haunted.' He said, 'Oh no, please don't tell me that.' I replied, 'It is and I know it is.' 'Well how do you know it is?' he asked. 'Well, number one, I can smell it and number two I can feel a presence around me here." Dennis Gersten: " " According to her, sometimes if there's been a grotesque death on the premises, the house will smell, no matter how much cleaning you do. She knew she was smelling or perceiving an odor from another realm, something that would definitely be called "crazy" by most psychiatrists."
The Other Realm
Our somewhat mundane explanation of Dr. Gersten"s conclusion is that "the other realm," of which he speaks is the microscopic realm of conspecific volatile organic compounds, trapped on and within the material substrate and cellulose matrix of the building materials, wafting out under favorable conditions and being detected by a sensitive individual, who then through contagion spreads the information. Otherwise, we could not agree more with their assertions. Here all three elements are present and working just as they should, and just as they always have. We also have a good example of how contagion works as she uses her heightened sensitivity to receive the alarm trigger, and then notifies her husband, who is clearly unable to consciously detect it.
When you hear hoof-beats, think horses first, not zebra! So far, nothing you have said has directly addressed any new points that we have made in a very old argument. Unfortunately, none of those hypotheses (including so-called string theory) are testable, and consequently represent a path that leads nowhere."
Allow me to continue: "That Which Remains," (Linder, McGill, et. al., 2014)
"In our own area of expertise, "air sniffing," Leavers, perform at least as well as a dog, and better than a rat (Shepherd, 2004). Human beings also have unprecedented polymorphic diversity in our olfactory sensory ability, and research suggests a minimum divergence of 14% between any two individual"s olfactory palettes (Zhang, 2007). As human beings evolved in social groups, this affords us with an enormous spectrum of odors that we can collectively detect. (> 1,000,000,000)
According to declassified CIA documents, the amount of aerosolized material required for human detection of specific compounds (not associated with high affinity receptors) is minuscule, and on-the-order-of a millionth-of-a-millionth of a gram in a liter of air, which is comparable to a dog"s air sniffing ability (Tebrich, 1993). Isoamyl mercaptan, in extremely low concentrations, has a garlic/green onion scent and flavor, can be detected in at levels as low as .77 parts per trillion. Other research focused on unconscious detection thresholds, suggest they are significantly lower still. One study (Nagata, Takeuchi, 1990) found that the concentration required for shifting our attention to one compound, ethyl mercaptan (used as an odorant for propane gas), requires concentration levels 57,000 times greater than needed for detection.
Now let's see what the subjective feeling of being in a haunted place looks like in a cave:
"About an hour before sunset, your scouting team finds a large cave, but the hunters know, in their world, nothing goes to waste and unoccupied caves are rare, and at best short-lived. The team cautiously enters with only the flickering glow from a single torch to light their way, but the cavern is deep, and the dim light fades beyond view into darkness. As you continue into the depths, a general sense of uneasiness overtakes you, as if the cave itself does not want you there.
The further you go the warmer and more humid it becomes, making the air feel thick and heavy. As if on cue, the hunters stop, sniff, look at each other knowingly, and all begin listening intently. However, the faint echo of dripping water, and the mournful whispers of the wind, which sound like voices murmuring in the distance, are all you can hear. As you continue, you realize the air has become foul, and you make eye contact with your youngest companion. He sniffs the air again, furrows his brow, and he raises both hands with fingers hooked like claws, creating a distinctly ferocious, cat-like appearance. However, completely undaunted, he turns and continues following his mentors deeper into the predator"s lair.
Against all better judgment, you continue following, and eventually the team works their way into a large chamber, where you become aware of a very faint, almost sickeningly sweet odor, different from the obvious animal stench. Not unlike the scent of rotting flowers, you think. Suddenly, and for no apparent reason, the cave seems to take on a sinister aspect, and an ominous sense of dread and foreboding overtakes you. You begin to feel nauseous, as a cold chill runs down your spine, and all the hairs on your body stand on end.
The dank stench hovering in the chamber finally registers, and though you have never been in one before, you inexplicably whisper to yourself, "This is a crypt." You try to dismiss it as your imagination, but the growing, ominous sense of presence all around you is so real, so overwhelming, that you are on the verge of running for your life, and stopping only when you cannot go on. Your pulse and respiration have tripled, and with each step, a sense of imminent, mortal danger grows inside you. Your hands shake from the adrenaline coursing through your veins, and cold sweat now covers your entire body and drips from your brow. Still, you hesitate to alert your companions, who seem completely oblivious to your travail and might consider you a coward or fool.
You strain to peer beyond the torchlight, and you are certain that you see malevolent shadow-figures lurking in the darkness just beyond sight, watching and waiting for you. The moaning wind has faded to silence; your heart is pounding beneath your breast like a bass drum, and every sound in the chamber echoes off the limestone walls like thunder.
From out of the darkness, something screeches in your ear as it flies by your head. Startled, you gasp and reflexively duck and cover, as it passes and flutters out of sight. Finally, with one hand on your chest to prevent your heart from bursting through your rib cage, your courage finally fails, and after taking several long slow breaths ending in a deep resigned sigh, you stand and reluctantly draw the attention of the hunters to inform them of your plight..."
Don't you think it odd that everything we find in a haunted house, that is, things that are innately frieghtening to us (corpses, skeletons, bats, black cats, spiders, etc.) came from a cave? Below, please find the one thing that no other competing theory has that meets all the criteria to be considered the true trigger for a haunting, the evidence of it's validity!
Wisman A, Shrira I. The smell of death: evidence that putrescine elicits threat management mechanisms. Frontiers in Psychology. 2015;6:1274. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01274.
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Lingering energy is in no way 'FACT!'. Mostly because energy is just transferred, eg chemical energy is transferred to heat energy and, amusingly, more chemical energy in bacteria.
"The same amount of energy has been on this earth ever since it existed.
This is instantaneously false. The Earth is an open system, it receives energy from the sun and loses it through radiation. It gains matter through comets and loses it through outgassing.
" Once someone dies their energy goes somewhere and that's when ghosts are created."
Let me amend that for you: 'Once someone dies their energy goes somewhere and that's what decomposition is'.
" I personally believe if the dead thing doesn't create a ghost, the energy will go into another being not born."
Awesome, believe that. Unfortunately, there's no evidence for your belief and as such it can be dismissed.
" And the picture thing, I understand that there is technology now and we are capable of doing those things but how do you explain the pictures taken before computers?"
Damaged film.
" Streaks? Maybe some, but the ones that resemble a human face EXACTLY?"
Damaged film. And filming over already-used-film.
" And 1 more point that needs to be argued, so let's say you just got married and are looking for a place to live in 1897, you find a house and love it. It seems to have something odd about it, strange things are happening. You see something: a shadow, you swear it was human figure. How are you going to tell the people in your small town?"
Irrelevant. It's not a ghost, either you're high, insane, drunk, or a combination of all three. Also infrasound.
"Ghosts are real because Einstein's law as of energy says that matter can not be destroyed nor created."
Correct, however, the energy of the body is only stored as chemical energy which is broken down in the form of decomposition.
" Ghosts are basically the astral body that was once inside a physical body which the ghost (the astral projection of the astral body) does not occupy his physical body anymore."
No evidence for 'astral bodies'.
"Plus Robert Lanza theory of Biocentrism says death doesn't exist in any real scenario!"
That's not a theory it's a hypothesis and appears to be entirely unsupported.
" According to ghost hunters, ghosts stay around for "unfinished business.""
Ghost hunters are not scientists.
Cont in next comment. Crossing over is a term used for when they go in the world where everyone else that's not a ghost goes, and the idea of lingering energy is an absolute FACT! The same amount of energy has been on this earth ever since it existed. Once someone dies their energy goes somewhere and that's when ghosts are created. I personally believe if the dead thing doesn't create a ghost, the energy will go into another being not born. And the picture thing, I understand that there is technology now and we are capable of doing those things but how do you explain the pictures taken before computers? Streaks? Maybe some, but the ones that resemble a human face EXACTLY? And 1 more point that needs to be argued, so let's say you just got married and are looking for a place to live in 1897, you find a house and love it. It seems to have something odd about it, strange things are happening. You see something: a shadow, you swear it was human figure. How are you going to tell the people in your small town?
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The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources seeks a visionary leader for the Department of Animal and Food Sciences who can enhance and expand interdisciplinary and collaborative relationships among public and private partners, and partnerships with other land-grant universities and colleges within the region; further the integration of animal and food sciences research; facilitate programming in research, teaching, and extension that results in impactful and applicable solutions to grand challenges in animal and food sciences; develop innovative academic and research-based initiatives that provide services to the farmers and citizens of Delaware; and establish ANFS as a leader within the University's One Health initiative --an integrative multidisciplinary effort to understand the health issues associated with the interaction between humans, animals and the environment.
The chair's roles include leadership, budget management, fundraising, personnel management and development. The chair will represent the Department and its programs across the university and to external stakeholders, and participate actively in the administration of the College along with the dean, associate deans, and other chairs and unit leaders. Although this position will be primarily administrative, the candidate is expected to contribute meaningfully to the research, teaching, and/or extension programs in the department. The candidate should have strong communication skills, excellent interpersonal skills, understand the land grant mission, be team-oriented, have the ability to direct college resources for practical and applicable Delaware services; and have a vision of the future of animal and food sciences in higher education.
The Department of Animal and Food Sciences (http://canr.udel.edu/anfs/)
consists of 22 full-time faculty members actively engaged in the core research areas of infectious diseases, genomics, immunology, microbiology including food safety, physiology and nutrition. ANFS has strong ties and collaborations with area related industries the Delaware Biotechnology Institute and the Avian Biosciences Center, and Lasher and Allen Laboratories. Worrilow Hall, the main teaching and research laboratory building that serves the department, is undergoing a $30 million renovation and upgrade that will position the Department for success for decades to come. Delaware and the Delmarva Peninsula provide an exceptional ecosystem and environment for research, education and outreach in ANFS disciplines.
The Animal and Food Sciences undergraduate programs are in high demand with over 350 students enrolled, including a nationally recognized pre-veterinary sciences program. The Bachelor of Science program in Food Science is accredited by the Institute of Food Technologists and has 100% of placement of graduates into food businesses or graduate schools. ANFS places a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary research and discovery-based learning. ANFS offers two master of science (M.S.) degree programs with concentrations in either Animal or Food Science, as well as a joint Ph.D. degree program in Animal and Food Sciences.
The University of Delaware (UD) is committed to excellence and impact as a preeminent learner-centered research university. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching classifies UD as a "highest research activity" institution, a designation achieved by only 3% of U.S. academic institutions. The University also achieved the Carnegie Engaged University classification in 2015. UD is located in the iconic college town of Newark, DE, an excellent geographic location within two hours of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. The University is a Land Grant, Sea Grant, Space Grant University, with externally sponsored activities exceeding $200 million annually.
Candidates will have a PhD. in animal, food science, or a related discipline with significant leadership experience. A qualified applicant will have credentials commensurate with those of a tenured full professor, including a record of significant scholarly contributions to teaching, research and/or extension along with excellent administrative and interpersonal skills. Candidates with these attributes from non-academic leadership backgrounds are also encouraged to apply.
Review of applications will begin October 1, 2018 and will continue until the position is filled. Applicants must submit a letter of application, including a statement describing their leadership philosophy and how they would be a good fit for this position. Applicants should also provide contact information for three references and a curriculum vitae as a single pdf document through the online application system
. Candidates' applications will not be shared beyond the department faculty until they are selected to move beyond the initial screening phase. Applicants will be notified before references are contacted. For inquiries, contact: Dr. Michael Peterson, Search Committee Chair, 302-831-1014 (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Equal Employment Opportunity
The University of Delaware is an Equal Opportunity Employer which encourages applications from minority group members, women, individuals with a disability and veterans. The University's Notice of Non-Discrimination can be found at http://www.udel.edu/aboutus/legalnotices.html. Employment offers will be conditioned upon successful completion of a criminal background check. A conviction will not necessarily exclude you from employment.
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This doesn't need it's own post but I went snowboarding again with Utah at Bellayre and shot this awesome video:
This would be the first time I went snowboarding since my motorcycle wreck in 05. I have a bunch of blown out discs in my back and I've always been really afraid of the compression that comes with snowboarding or skiing. But, I decided to give it a try anyway.
Tim, myself, and my wife Maria went up the night before so we could take our time. It would be the first time my wife did any kind of winter sports.
Here's all of us on the Skii lift:
We also pigged out at the continental breakfast, or at least I did.
So we get up to the mountain and because of some screwed up way the place is laid out you have to take a truck ride to the ticket booth. No problem though. We got our tickets after waiting for the lady in front of me to pay with food stamps or something, it took her an honest 10 minutes to complete her transaction for her and her 900 children.
By this time we had met up with Utah and Eileen who arrived that morning. I abandoned my wife to ski school and we started our day.
Here's Eileen enjoying the snow.
And Utah and Eileen as we wait for rusty Tim to remember how to snowboard.
Here's me and Ei trying to figure out how to take a picture of all of us on the lift.
And Tim trying his best not to get pissed off at the snow.
Utah decided he could skii and operate the camera at the same time, I figured out that I really couldn't on the snowboard, I have to use my arms too much because I suck.
As you can see in this video as Eileen looks totally natural and graceful and I look like I'm in some kind of perpetual fall.
We then went and found my wife who had been successfully navigating the bunny hill by herself and having a good time, and we took a few more runs and our lift ticket's were done at 4:30.
I had a really good time snowboarding, but on the very last run i felt a really sharp pain in my back. I had felt a little pain while sitting on the lift but I was ignoring it. I had 2 Motrin in me from the morning and I guess they were wearing off. While walking back to the car I experienced some of the worst pain in my life. I couldn't even walk, it was intense shooting pain right in my spine. UGH. My wife carried my stuff and I eventually made it to the car. The whole ride home I had back spasms every few minutes. Once we got home we decided to go back out and get dinner as a group again. Tim didn't want to come, I think he missed his wife too much 🙂
During dinner and after my back continued to spasm like crazy. I really thought I was going to have to go to the hospital or something for real pain killers. I had by then taken another 5 Motrin in the last few hours and it wasn't helping at all. When I got home I used my heating pad to calm down my back, my normal 15 minutes on, 15 off. Eventually my back unclamped from it's incredibly tense position and I was able to stretch and crack my back. By the next day I was completely fine. I took it easy anyway and didn't do anything. Now today (Monday) I feel like nothing ever happened. So strange, usually when I have back spasms that mean's I'm stuck in bed for weeks. hmf.
Maybe I'll have to get a huge heating stick on thing to wear on my back next time. Something to keep my back from tensing up.
Now I want to go snowboarding again!


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